A Brooklyn couple who helped an abortion opponent elude the authorities after he killed an upstate doctor in 1998 were sentenced yesterday to 29 months in prison, the time they had already served while awaiting trial. The couple, Dennis J....

A woman who admitted helping James C. Kopp, left, convicted of killing a doctor who performed abortions, said yesterday that prosecutors had reneged on a deal for leniency in sentencing. The woman, Loretta C. Marra, said she and her husband, Dennis...

August 21, 2003, Thursday

To the Editor: Re ''Couple Plead Guilty to Aiding Man Who Killed Abortion Provider'' (news article, April 16): Loretta C. Marra and Dennis J. Malvasi belong to a nationwide network of extremists who use terror and murder to attack women's...

A couple with a long history of anti-abortion activism pleaded guilty in Brooklyn yesterday to aiding the flight from justice of James C. Kopp, who was recently convicted in the 1998 killing of a doctor in upstate New York who performed abortions. ...

James C. Kopp, left, the abortion foe convicted of murder in a state trial this week, appeared briefly in federal court yesterday for a status report on his coming federal trial. Mr. Kopp is to be sentenced on the state charges on May 9 and faces a...

A lawyer for the man who admitted gunning down a doctor who performed abortions made an emotional argument in court here today, urging a judge to find his client not guilty of murder. In a highly unusual criminal proceeding here today, Bruce A....

More than four years after a Buffalo-area doctor was shot to death through his kitchen window, jury selection is to begin today in the trial of the abortion opponent accused in the killing. The shooting of Dr. Barnett A. Slepian received...

Two anti-abortion activists were indicted yesterday on charges that they harbored a fugitive suspected in the 1998 slaying of a suburban Buffalo doctor who performed abortions. The indictment charges the two, Dennis J. Malvasi and Loretta C. Marra,...

A federal judge rejected a plea deal yesterday for two anti-abortion radicals accused of aiding James Kopp, who is charged with killing a doctor who provided abortions. The judge, Richard Arcara, ordered the trial of the couple, Dennis Malvasi and...